Flock & ALPR Cameras in Lake Grove, New York
Volunteers have reported 10 automated license plate readers in and around Lake Grove — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
Jurisdiction · by recorded street address
The 9 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of Lake Grove, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 0 of them sit inside Lake Grove itself.
The rest sit in Town of Brookhaven (4), Town of Smithtown (3), Centereach (2).
3 of them name an operator in the record: Simon Property Group (2), Lowe's (1). The operator is who runs the camera, which is not always the local government.
Source: community-mapped camera data (OpenStreetMap, ODbL), with addresses resolved by Nominatim.
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No new reports near Lake Grove in the last 30 days — checked hourly, last checked Oct 8, 06:29 UTC. Cameras only get on the map when someone looks: be the one.
Where the cameras are in Lake Grove
The readers mapped around Lake Grove break down as 9 Flock Safety. Named operators in the reports: Simon Property Group, Lowe's. The first camera here was reported in Dec 2025; the most recent in Aug 2026.
- Burr Lane — 2 readers
- New Moriches Road — 2 readers
- Smithtown Bypass — 1 reader
- Nesconset — 1 reader
- Village of Lake Grove — 1 reader
- Alexander Avenue — 1 reader
- Smith Haven Mall — 1 reader
Lake Grove in the Suffolk County picture
Suffolk County has 209 reported cameras county-wide and ranks #1,608 of 3,222 U.S. counties for cameras per resident. That’s across 1,525,680 residents and 7,077 road miles. By road density that is 0.03 cameras per road mile, in the top 21.8% of counties nationally.
Where contributors recorded what a camera watches, the split here is 7 traffic, 2 entrance. Operators named on the record: Simon Property Group (2), Lowe's (1).
Camera activity around Lake Grove, last 30 days
1 newly reported in our hourly change log for Lake Grove. Latest change logged Aug 27, 2026.
What’s watching Lake Grove
These aren’t red-light cameras. Automated license plate readers like Flock Safety’s photograph every plate that passes, log the time and place, and store it in a searchable database that’s often shared far beyond Lake Grove — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Lake Grove (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
What you can do in Lake Grove
Ask who approved these cameras, how long plate data is kept, and who it’s shared with. File a public records request, raise it at a council meeting, and see the full playbook on Take Action. Fighting this locally? Join or start a chapter and we’ll amplify you.
Not sure what one looks like? See photographs of installed cameras before you go looking.
Cameras near Lake Grove
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).